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2009 Essential Conferences for Grades 4, 5, 6, & 7

in Mancos, CO July, 2009

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2009 Essential Conferences for Grades 1 & 2 in Kimberton, PA June, 2009

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Resources for Home Schoolers

 

Eugene Schwartz Biography

 

Eugene Schwartz Resume

 

NEW: Discover Waldorf Education, an introductory video on YouTube.

 

NEW: To view Grade Six Geometry,

another YouTube video, click here.

 

NEW:To view From Movement to Form, click here

 

NEW:To view From Story to Letter, click here

 

Reading and Writing,

The Waldorf Approach - 

click here to view this 20-minute

video on YouTube

 

Eugene Schwartz interview on Alaska Public Radio - listen to the hour-long program recorded on Rudolf Steiner's birthday, 2007

 

Eurythmy - Making Movement Human - view excerpts

 

Millennial Children-

listen to the entire lecture

 

Watch a Google Video of Eugene Schwartz's Introduction to Waldorf given in Izmir, Turkey, May 2006

 

Watch a Google Video of an excerpt from Eugene's lecture No Childhood Left Behind

 

Articles:             Blinking, Feeling, & Willing

 

High Stakes Testing & Waldorf Schools

 

Beyond Cognition - Children and Television

 

Do the Festivals Have a Future?

 

Assuming Nothing: Nature vs. Nurture

 

Handwork and Intellectual Development

 

ADHD: A Challenge of Our Time  

 

The Cry for Myth

 

Freedom of Choice or Freedom From Choice?             

 

Computers in Education      

 

Helping Your Child's Teacher Communicate 

 

The Sixth Grade Crisis

 

From Playing to Thinking

 

Demystifiying Adolescence

 

Verses for the Primary Grades

 

Eugene Schwartz

A   W a l d o r f   c o n s u l t a n t   f r o m   t h e   U. S.   t o  Norway to Turkey,

E u g e n e   h a s   gr a d u a t e d   t h r e e    e i g h t h   g r a d e s

a n d    w a s   a   f r i e n d   t o   t h e   s c h o o l   f r o m   t h e   b e g in n i n g .

After I gave a talk in 1990, at the

inception of the College of Teachers

of the Shining Mountain Waldorf

School in Boulder, Patty Fox asked if

I knew there was a movement afoot

to start a Waldorf school in Aspen.

She wanted to start not an ordinary

private school, but a school that

would be aligned with the public

schools, a Waldorf alternative. I was

extremely skeptical. I didn’t think

there was enough of a permanent

population to support a school,

and celebrities moved their children

from place to place. Patty insisted

that there really were down-to-earth

people there and if I would visit

I would see that. I told her that if

the school was already going and

representing Waldorf philosophy, I

felt bound to help.

My first “official” meeting in Aspen

was with Betsy Hill, principal of the

Aspen Middle School. I was aston-

ished at her interest in Waldorf

education and her feeling that the

possibility of a track in the pub-

lic school could happen. I knew,

having experienced a bit of this

in California and New York, that

principals and superintendents are

often farsighted and even visionar y

when it comes to Waldorf educa-

tion but teachers feel threatened by

what they might have to change.

In spite of my skepticism and con-

cern that things were happening

too quickly, and that demographi-

cally a school might not be sup-

ported, a seed had been planted

in Aspen. It was clear that when

these people put their will behind

something, it was going to happen.

The next year, I came straight into

Aspen where something young and

vital was happening – sprinkled

with fresh powder .

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